George Buchanan
Poet and Dramatist
Published on 1. December 2009
Book
Hardback
322 pages
978-1-905125-36-4 (ISBN)
Description
Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as `easily the prince of poets'. Here fifteen scholars, from many countries, analyse his writings, his creative use of ancient texts for contemporary purposes, and his impact on the culture of Scotland and of Europe - not least in the spheres of tragedy and music.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Swansea
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
766 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905125-36-4 (9781905125364)
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12/2009
Classical Press of Wales
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Persons
Philip Ford is Professor of French Literature and neo-Latin in the University of Cambridge. Roger Green was for long Professor of Humanity (Latin) at the University of Glasgow.
Content
Buchanans poetic achievement (Philip Ford); Redundant epithets in Buchanans Pastorals (Robert Cummings) Literary metamorphosis in Buchanans De Sphaera (Emma Gee); The writing of memory in George Buchanans Iusta (Nathalie Catellani-Dufrene); Homo exsul as the lyric persona in Buchanans Psalms (Elwira Buszewicz); The Heavens are Telling: a Psalm-paraphrase-poem analysed (Roger Green); The historical importance of Jean Servins settings of Buchanans Psalm Paraphrases (James Porter); Buchanans Psalms and the musical settings by Statius Olthof (Margaret Duncumb); Buchanans tragedies and contemporary dramatic theory (Giacomo Cardinali); Biblical inspiration in Buchanans tragedies (Carine Ferradou); Buchanan and the poetics of borrowing in the Latin translation of Euripides Medea (Jean-Frederic Chevalier); Translating Buchanan (Ronnie Jack); Drama out of the closet: Buchanan on stage (Jamie Reid Baxter); Return, Buchanan! The Letter of Walter Dennistoun to George Buchanan and Buchanans Reply (Jack MacQueen); Dry Bones of Contention? Picking apart Buchanans Psalms (Roger Green); George Buchanan's Half Millennium; (Robert Crawford)